Re: Add support to some Creative Commons licenses (e.g. Stack Overflow support)

[Yuchen Pei]

On Wed 2022-02-02 20:50:31 +1100, Yuchen Pei wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 01 2022, Valerio Bozzolan via wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody
>>
>> == Preamble ==
>>
>> I know that Creative Commons licenses are NOT designed for source code,
>> but at the moment Stack Overflow has billions of snippets licensed in
>> that way:
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
>>
>> Also, you know that the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license is a Free
>> Content license, and it's compatible with GNU GPL:
>>
>> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/creative-commons-by-sa-4-0-declared-one-way-compatible-with-gnu-gpl-version-3
>>
>> == What should be done ==
>>
>> Having said that it's perfectly legitimate to have JavaScript snippets
>> in CC BY-SA, I suggest to add support to these licenses in LibreJS at
>> least:
>>
>> * https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
>> * https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 
>> * https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
>>
>> In this way, people with good intentions can have a LibreJS-compliant
>> website, respecting the copyright of the authors of StackOverflow.
>>
>> This would be great also to respect copyright from snippets of code
>> copied from Wikipedia.
>>
>> What do you think about? Can this be done?
>
> I don't see a reason why not.  A search in the mailing list archives
> showed there were similar requests from the past.

Currently many CC licenses are supported if they are not labelled in
weblabels, i.e. if they are labelled inline in html or javascript. An
upcoming release should have full support of CC licenses.

P.S. Does stackoverflow actually label any of the scripts under CC
licenses?

>
>>
>> Thank you so much for your work!
>>
>> -boz
>
>
> Best,
> Yuchen


Best,
Yuchen

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